First of all thank you so much for your reviews on iTunes and wherever it is that you listen to this

podcast I read everyone personally I have mentioned in other episodes I'm personally going through a tough time right now.

And honestly, your words really make a difference to me.

So keep them coming.

If you haven't left one, I'd love it if you did.

Thank you, thank you so much for your reviews. They are just a great boon to me right now.

All right, so let's get to the subject at hand, something that I was not going to bring up.

I've been thinking about it.

And I didn't want to bring it up because I don't want to make

anything worse for people I don't want to cause scandal and I this is not exactly the direction that I typically want to go on this podcast.

However, I feel like I might be able to add value here and somebody has to say it. I feel like there's an elephant in the room right now so

let's acknowledge the elephant in the room so we can deal with it. A lot of people

are having a crisis of faith right now. I thought it was a fluke when I a few

months ago I started to hear from a couple of people and in fact they work in

ministry you might follow them on social media who said,

I'm just, I'm struggling with my faith right now. I'm just, I don't know. I don't know what I believe.

And I've actually taken a little bit of a step back so that I can just

pray and reflect and get my head right because I'm I'm having a crisis of faith.

And then I heard from more people and more people and then a couple of friends said, Jen, are you hearing from people who are having a crisis of faith?

Because a lot of people are feeling that way right now.

And so it seems like we have a second epidemic going on.

We've got COVID, and then we've had,

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